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We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.\nAs a part of the V2X Ground-Based Radar Development (GBRD) team, we are a part of an exciting opportunity to design and field a Common Radar Back End supporting UEWR, PARCS, COBRA DANE, and AN/FPS 85 radar sites.\nWe are seeking a System Administrator to join a team of engineers in the design of the Common Radar Back End platform layer-servers, operating systems, containerized hosting environment, health/status, logging, and platform automation-across multiple integration laboratories serving operational radar sites. Our qualified candidate will be instrumental in certifying that mission applications are hosted on a stable, secure, and well-documented platform and will seamlessly integrate into the mission-critical systems supporting the radar systems.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows server operating systems in laboratory and operational environments.\nApply approved operating-system baselines, patches, packages, drivers, firmware dependencies, user settings, and service configurations.\nDevelop processes for and manage user accounts, groups, roles, permissions, authentication settings, and privileged access in accordance with approved procedures.\nAdminister physical servers, virtual machines, storage resources, file systems, and supporting platform services.\nSupport containerized hosting environments, including node configuration, service deployment, image updates, configuration changes, service restarts, and basic cluster administration.\nConfigure and maintain system monitoring, health and status, alerting, performance, capacity, and availability tools.\nConfigure and maintain system logging, audit collection, log rotation, retention, search, export, and forwarding to centralized monitoring tools.\nPerform routine backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and disaster-recovery support activities.\nExecute approved automation scripts and tools for system deployment, health checks, configuration validation, patch reporting, account management, and recurring administration tasks.\nSupport system integration by building test configurations, applying approved changes, collecting diagnostics, and reproducing technical issues.\nTroubleshoot operating-system, storage, virtualization, container, service, account, performance, and interface issues or issues that are blocking developers or test engineers; document corrective actions.\nSupport rack installation, server setup, operating-system installation, cable and interface verification, configuration checkout, and post-installation validation.\nMaintain accurate configuration documentation, as-built records, system inventories, software versions, hardware details, network settings, and administrator procedures.\nSupport cybersecurity personnel by implementing approved hardening requirements, remediation actions, account controls, audit settings, and evidence collection.\nSupport developmental and operational test activities by collecting logs, isolating faults, reproducing issues, implementing approved corrections, and supporting retest.\nDevelop, document, and maintain system builds, network diagrams, administrator runbooks, checklists, standard operating procedures, recovery procedures, and training materials.\nProvide technical status, issue, risk, and configuration information to engineering and program stakeholders.\nOffice based environment. Maybe some occasional travel, CONUS, OCONUS and Remote.\nQualifications\nEducational Requirements:\nBachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical discipline and at least 5 years of relevant experience.\nAn advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 3 years of relevant experience may be accepted.\nAdditional directly relevant systems-administration experience may be considered in place of a degree, subject to company policy and applicable laws and regulations or generalized experience.\nRequired Skills:\nMinimum 8 years of related expereince. \nHands-on experience installing, configuring, administering, patching, and troubleshooting Linux server operating systems.\nExperience administering Windows Server environments, including services, accounts, permissions, patching, and troubleshooting.\nExperience managing physical servers, virtual machines, storage, file systems, system services, and operating-system dependencies.\nExperience with user and group administration, access permissions, authentication, privileged access, and account lifecycle management.\nExperience with virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or equivalent.\nWorking knowledge of containers and container platforms such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or equivalent.\nExperience performing backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and system-rebuild activities.\nExperience applying secure configuration baselines, patching requirements, audit settings, and vulnerability-remediation actions.\nAbility to create and maintain accurate system documentation, administrator procedures, configuration records, and troubleshooting guides.\nStrong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.\nProficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.\nU.S. citizenship with active DoD Secret security clearance.\nDesired Skills:\nExperience supporting radar, missile defense, space surveillance, command-and-control, sensor, weapon, or other mission-critical systems.\nExperience supporting laboratory-to-site deployments, systems integration laboratories, test facilities, or fielded operational systems.\nExperience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu Server, or comparable enterprise Linux distributions.\nExperience with Red Hat Satellite, Foreman, Spacewalk, Windows Server Update Services, or comparable patch and lifecycle-management tools.\nExperience with Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster administration and container image deployment.\nExperience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Terraform, or equivalent.\nExperience with enterprise identity services such as Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Kerberos, or centralized authentication.\nExperience with clustered services, high availability, redundant systems, and degraded-mode operations.\nFamiliarity with Risk Management Framework activities, NIST SP 800-53 controls, Security Technical Implementation Guides, and cybersecurity assessment evidence.\nFamiliarity with configuration management, engineering change control, technical data packages, and digital engineering environments.\nRelevant certifications such as Security+, Linux+, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Microsoft, VMware, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator.\nAbility to work effectively with software, network, cybersecurity, systems engineering, test, installation, and operations teams.\nAbility to support occasional CONUS, OCONUS site travel.\nWorking knowledge of networking fundamentals, including Internet Protocol addressing, subnetting, Virtual Local Area Networks, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, routing, switching, and firewall concepts.\nAbility to use Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or comparable scripting and automation tools for systems-administration tasks.\nExperience with system monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Elastic Stack, Splunk, syslog, or equivalent.\nAt V2X, we are deeply committed to both equal employment opportunity, including protection for Veterans and individuals with disabilities, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We ensure all individuals are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, recognizing the strength that comes from a workforce rich in diverse experiences, perspectives, and skills. This commitment, aligned with our core Vision and Values of Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility, allows us to leverage differences, encourage innovation, and expand our success in the global marketplace, ultimately enabling us to best serve our clients.\nDesign, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Linux and Windows server operating systems in laboratory and operational environments.\nApply approved operating-system baselines, patches, packages, drivers, firmware dependencies, user settings, and service configurations.\nDevelop processes for and manage user accounts, groups, roles, permissions, authentication settings, and privileged access in accordance with approved procedures.\nAdminister physical servers, virtual machines, storage resources, file systems, and supporting platform services.\nSupport containerized hosting environments, including node configuration, service deployment, image updates, configuration changes, service restarts, and basic cluster administration.\nConfigure and maintain system monitoring, health and status, alerting, performance, capacity, and availability tools.\nConfigure and maintain system logging, audit collection, log rotation, retention, search, export, and forwarding to centralized monitoring tools.\nPerform routine backup, restore, recovery, configuration backup, and disaster-recovery support activities.\nExecute approved automation scripts and tools for system deployment, health checks, configuration validation, patch reporting, account management, and recurring administration tasks.\nSupport system integration by building test configurations, applying approved changes, collecting diagnostics, and reproducing technical issues.\nTroubleshoot operating-system, storage, virtualization, container, service, account, performance, and interface issues or issues that are blocking developers or test engineers; document corrective actions.\nSupport rack installation, server setup, operating-system installation, cable and interface verification, configuration checkout, and post-installation validation.\nMaintain accurate configuration documentation, as-built records, system inventories, software versions, hardware details, network settings, and administrator procedures.\nSupport cybersecurity personnel by implementing approved hardening requirements, remediation actions, account controls, audit settings, and evidence collection.\nSupport developmental and operational test activities by collecting logs, isolating faults, reproducing issues, implementing approved corrections, and supporting retest.\nDevelop, document, and maintain system builds, network diagrams, administrator runbooks, checklists, standard operating procedures, recovery procedures, and training materials.\nProvide technical status, issue, risk, and configuration information to engineering and program stakeholders.\nOffice based environment. 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